Attachment Exhibit F

This document pretains to SES-ASG-20140523-00387 for Assignment on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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FCC Form 312 Assignment Application May 23, 2014 Page 1 of 2 Exhibit F: Response to Question A21 By this application, AirTap Communications, LLC (“AirTap”) and Tampnet Inc. (“Tampnet”) (collectively, the “Applicants”) seek Commission consent to the assignment of a Very Small Aperture Terminal (“VSAT”) authorization with Call Sign E100138, which operates on a non-common carrier basis, from AirTap to Tampnet. On May 10, 2014, Tampnet AS entered into an agreement with AirTap to acquire all of AirTap’s assets, including the VSAT license. AirTap, a Louisiana limited liability company, operates a high speed, multi-point broadband network in the Gulf of Mexico and related coastal areas to provide private communications services to customers in the energy industry. AirTap utilizes the instant VSAT license, as well as other wireless licenses1 (collectively, “the FCC Licenses”), to provide these services. Upon closing of the transaction, the FCC Licenses will be held by Tampnet. Tampnet, a Delaware corporation, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tampnet AS (“Tampnet AS”), a Norwegian limited liability company that provides low latency, high capacity private communication services to offshore installations in the Norwegian and United Kingdom parts of the North Sea. Tampnet AS provides service to over 100 oil and gas platforms, floating production storage and offloading units (“FPSOs”) and exploration rigs utilizing fiber backbone cables, radio links and LTE (4G) technology. The proposed assignment of AirTap’s assets to Tampnet will serve the public interest by ensuring that users in the remote and harsh environments of the energy industry have continued and uninterrupted access to communications capabilities. Following consummation of the proposed transaction, Tampnet, under the direction of Tampnet AS, will continue to provide service to users in the Gulf of Mexico, which will benefit the businesses that rely on the communications capacity provided using the facilities covered by the VSAT license. The VSAT license is critical for the provision of communications capabilities because it provides redundancy among users’ sites and enhances the resilience of the microwave facilities. The transaction will permit Tampnet AS to leverage its experience from operating communications infrastructure in the harsh conditions of the North Sea in the Gulf of Mexico, which is similarly subject to harsh weather conditions. Tampnet AS has introduced LTE (4G) services in the North Sea, a technology it plans to deploy in the Gulf of Mexico. This will benefit users in the Gulf of Mexico because LTE has lower latency and higher capacity compared to the existing infrastructure, which will promote the safety of operations in the area. The transaction will ensure that there are adequate resources to support the continued operation of the 1 Contemporaneously with this application, AirTap and Tampnet are filing with the Commission’s Wireless Bureau an FCC Form 603 seeking Commission consent to the assignment of thirty-seven Microwave Industrial/Business Pool licenses and one 3650-3700 MHz license, all of which operate on a non-common carrier basis, from AirTap to Tampnet Inc. See ULS File No. 0006297445.

FCC Form 312 Assignment Application May 23, 2014 Page 2 of 2 AirTap facilities, which will continue to provide critical communications capabilities to users in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, given that all of the FCC Licenses operate on a non-common carrier basis, the transaction presents no foreign ownership issues under Section 310(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. Accordingly, the Applicants respectfully submit that the instant transaction will serve the public interest, convenience and necessity, and thus should be approved as expeditiously as possible. The call sign included in this application is intended to include all of the FCC licenses and authorizations held by AirTap that are subject to the transaction. However, AirTap either has on file or may hereafter file additional requests for authorizations for new and/or modified facilities that may be granted before the Commission takes action on this application. Accordingly, the Applicants request that Commission approval of this application filed for this transaction include authority for Tampnet to be assigned: (1) any authorization issued to AirTap while this transaction is pending before the Commission and the period required for consummation of the transaction; and (2) any applications filed by AirTap that are pending at the time of consummation. 2 Such action would be consistent with prior decisions of the Commission. 2 In particular, the Applicants note that AirTap has a pending application for authority to operate an Earth Station on-board Vessels/VSAT in the Ku-Band, which was filed with the Commission on April 11, 2014 and placed on Public Notice as accepted for filing on April 23, 2014. See Public Notice, Satellite Radio Applications Accepted For Filing, Report No. SES-01640, File No. SES-LIC-20140411-00284, Call Sign E140042.


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